A Young Man's Exhortation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC BEEB FGGG HBBH BCall off your eyes from care | A |
By some determined deftness put forth joys | B |
Dear as excess without the core that cloys | B |
And charm Life's lourings fair | A |
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Exalt and crown the hour | C |
That girdles us and fill it full with glee | D |
Blind glee excelling aught could ever be | D |
Were heedfulness in power | C |
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Send up such touching strains | B |
That limitless recruits from Fancy's pack | E |
Shall rush upon your tongue and tender back | E |
All that your soul contains | B |
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For what do we know best | F |
That a fresh love leaf crumpled soon will dry | G |
And that men moment after moment die | G |
Of all scope dispossest | G |
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If I have seen one thing | H |
It is the passing preciousness of dreams | B |
That aspects are within us and who seems | B |
Most kingly is the King | H |
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WESTBOURNE PARK VILLAS | B |
Thomas Hardy
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